.99 Steak and Chops

Dot 99 Steak and Chops has been around for about 2 years. The last I dine here was close to one year ago. After so long, I'm very happy with the food. The standard of the food is still remained.

One thing that has changed is now the crowds are lesser. Last time it used to very busy during the weekends and service is very slow due to business too good. Well, I guess is maybe the food price has gone up that's causing less people to dine here. If i'm not wrong, the price has revised twice. First time the price revised was in June 2008 and it was after the sudden fuel price increased and the second time was beginning of 2009.

Minute steak RM13.90

They should change the name to mini steak. The portion
is small and that is what we get for the price that we are paying :)


King burger RM10.90

Value for money: big portion and satisfaction guarantee!

Service ***
Taste ****
Presentation ****
Price *****

.99 Steak and Chops
12, Lorong Rahim Kajai 14, Taman Tun Dr Ismail
Tel: +603 7726 5327

Quality steamboat: Xin Chun Seafood Steamboat

Last night me dar & I have a steamboat dinner plan with his buddies at Kota Damansara. His friend recommended this steamboat shop from pulau ketam call Xin Chun. The shop is not located near where all the F&B and it's situated at one corner which you will think there don't have any F&B shop. We took awhile to find the shop.

Since we have 6 persons, we order Ala carte instead of order by head count so that we can have the ingredients that we like. We also ordered their signature dishes: steam big lala ( those with very thick shell) & lala fried meehoon.

The presentation of this 2 dishes are not very nice. I judged the
food when it served and though won't be nice. Surprisingly the mee
hoon taste great because it soak up the sweetness of the lala.
The big lala was steamed with chinese rice wine, ginger and wolfberry.
Fire and duration of steaming are well controlled and the texture of
the lala turn up very nice not too chewy.

thin slice pork
slice of perfection!


the ingredients
As you can see we also ordered giantic pork ball, fish ball, fish
paste wanton, mushroom, fu chuk and tofu pok. The soup they
only have chicken soup and tom yam.

We didn't want to over cook the crab. So we put in 2 crabs into the pot after finished all the ingredients. The crabs are fresh and sweet. I enjoyed the crabs very much because it is so fresh that I thought we are eating in Pulau Ketam :)

Everyone were pleased with the food and service, they have nothing to complaint. Frankly, the chicken soup taste a bit bland. Me dar keep saying that I'm fussy. I'm not being fussy, I just give my feedback on the food and I believe nothing in the world is perfect.

The bill is RM280 and i find it cheap compared to other steamboat shop because the ingredients are fresh, some more we had seafood and 5 bottles of Heineken beer.

Service ****
Taste ****
Presentation ***
Price *****

Xin Chun Seafood Steamboat Restaurant ( Pulau Ketam)
No.15-1, Ground Floor, Jalan PJU 5/3,
Dataran Sunway,
Kota Damansara
47810
Tel: 012-544 5582

Landmark: Few doors away from Bank Simpanan Nasional & 7-11

Umai-ya @ Damansara Perdana

2 weeks ago we ( Kar Yen, Jien Feng and I) gave SP a birthday treat at Umaiya. I insisted that we go to the outlet in Damansara Perdana because I find the food here is better as compared to the other outlet in Uptown.

We were lucky to have a private room because we never make reservation. Everyone had great time and were satisfy with the food served. Most importantly the birthday girl enjoyed the food especially the udon noodles. She claimed that it was the best udon noodles she ever tasted.

Dragon Maki - unagi, cucumber, prawn and avocado

My all time favourite maki. It was a superb
combination of flavours.

Saba shioyaki - grilled mackerel

Must order this, it was a awesome dish! Imagine alone
I can finish the whole fish

Una cheese maki - rice roll with unagi, cheese and fish roe

The taste was good, but I don't quite like the texture because this
maki doesn't taste how a original maki should be. Rightfully,
a maki should consist of crunchy ingredients such as
soft shell crab or tempura prawn.

Chawanmushi

silky smooth chawanmushi

Sushi platter - part of the bento set

Veggie tempura

Green tea ice cream and Goma ice cream

Goma ice cream made of black sesame and peanut. The great thing about this ice cream is the sweetness of the ice cream is balanced by the saltiness of the peanut.

Service ****
Taste ****
Presentation ****
Price ***

Umai-ya Japanese Restaurant ( Damansara Perdana)
G-3A, The Place, Jalan PJU 8/5D
Bandar Damansara Perdana
Petaling Jaya
Tel: 03-77290015

Restaurant Jin Xuan Hong Kong S/B

For real and good quality dim sum, go for Jin Xuan Hong Kong newly opened dim sum shop in Damansara Jaya. Jin Xuan offers good selection of authentic Hong Kong dim sum. With its good food, is always crowded and you'll probably have to queue.

Marmite pork ribs RM10

well seasoned and yummy

3 baskets of dim sum RM3.50/basket

All the standard dim sum were fresh and delicious


Fried glutinous rice RM5.00

Tasty and chewy, with a firm texture

Porridge RM4.00

Porridge is very smooth

One good thing about this place is the wide selection of dim sum that you can choose from steamed dim sum selection and deep fried dim sum selection. They also served dessert like kwei ling kao ( herbal jelly) and pudding.

Service ****
Taste ****
Presentation ****
Price ***

Restaurant Jin Xuan Hong Kong S/B
No.59,61&63, Jln SS22/19,
Damansara Jaya 47300
03-7729 6866
7am - 3pm

Birthday dinner @ Oasis Rib

09.09.08 was Kyren's 4th birthday. He requested to have birthday dinner at Uncle Vernon's place aka Ribs@Oasis.

Fish and chips

Thumbs up, the batter was nice and crispy. The fish was moist and tender.

Meatball spaghetti4 huge meatballs, tasty seasoned. The spaghetti was a bit soggy


Leek and shrimp pasta

Leek is perfectly cooked in this creamy pasta recipe

After an awesome meal is time to sing Happy Birthday song.

jelly cake as desert.

Rating:
Service ****
Taste ****
Presentation *****
Price ****

Ribs @ Oasis
Lot 1-1, BU4, Oasis Complex
No.1, Jln Changkat Bandar Utama
47800 Bandar Utama
03-77298921

tea time @ rasah jaya, seremban

Recently, I went to Seremban to attend my cousin's wedding. As we all know that normally Chinese wedding dinner never start on time and always start late like 8.30pm. Normally I'll have something light so that I'm prepared for late dinner.

My uncle took me to this restaurant in Rasah Jaya to have tong sui before we go for the wedding dinner. Restaurant Bubur Manis Zhuan Kee is a place to meet whereby in front of the shop have ample of parking and they snacks that they served is cheap and tasty. Here they have variety of hot and cold dessert, wide selection of kuih-muih and local fried noodle.

Indulge and enjoy colourful dessert

Yam cake

Black glutinous with santan

The joys of living in a small town like Seremban is you can find good food for cheap.

Service ***
Taste ****
Presentation ****
Price *****

Restaurant Bubur Manis Zhuan Kee
Jln 6/3, Rasah Jaya
Seremban

Octopus ball: Tako Tao

After one and the half hours of window shopping in Mid Valley, it's time for some snack! We headed to Jaya Jusco superket at lower ground for Tako Tao octopus ball.

The octopus ball are made with an egg batter base. It's golden and crispy outside and inside is soft and moist. It's topped with Japanese barbeque sauce, mayonnaise, nori (seaweed) and sprinkled with dried bonito flakes, them seem to 'dance' on the Tako Tao.

First they put a flour mixture into a special hot plate. Then they add the octopus. As it cooks, they flip it and make it into balls.

RM4.50 for 3 Tako Tao

It tastes best when hot, but have to be careful though it's hot!

Rating:
Service ****
Taste *****
Presentation *****

Price ****

The stall front.

Golden Dragon Boat

Golden Dragon Boat specialties is shark's fin, abalone, barbequed suckling pig, peking duck and roasted chicken. I heard many good reviews for this restaurant. We had farewell lunch here with family, it was organized by Darren's aunt. The restaurant manager is good at recommending dishes and we don't have to look at the menu. We order a few simple dishes:

Gu Lou York

Specially ordered for Kyren, it's his favourite dish.
The meat was a bit hard.

Fried Kai Lan with mince pork

The kai lan chopped finely and fried with
minced pork, different cooking style

Claypot homemade tofu

I always like tofu with gravy. This is an excellent dish.
Tofu was good, soft and smooth. There are green pea,
mushroom, shrimp and minced pork in the gravy.

Black pepper deer meat

The deer meat is tender and is not too peppery.

Shi jap crispy pan fried wan yu

I like this dish. Crispy and golden brown outside.
The meat was moist and flaky inside.

Rating:
Service *****
Taste ****
Presentation ****

Price - No idea how much is the bill :)

Golden Dragon Boat Restaurant
No. 115-121, Jln Imbi, KL
03-2148 6805/6850/6950

Nasi Bukhara: Nasi Briyani with chicken

I've never tried nasi bukhara at other places before but each time when I craved for it , I'll head to Al-Tamiz at Damansara Perdana. Nasi bukhara is actually nasi briyani cooked with pieces of chicken and together with a selection of spices and herbs. They served nasi bukhara on Fridays only, usually it's ready by 12.20pm.

humongous big portion of nasi bukhara come with
one whole egg that cooked in curry- RM9.80

The 1/4 chicken was very juicy and tender.
The rice full of flavor and rich in spices.

Rating:
Service ***
Taste ****
Presentation ****

Price *****

Restaurant Al-Tamiz
No6-1, Jln PJU 8/5G
Damanasara Perdana

Kozee cafe @TTDI

Kozee Cafe is located 2 doors away from the Mosin mamak stall in Tmn Tun Dr Ismail. It's a little cafe with nice oriental food at a good value and the staff there are friendly too. Most of the customers are the usual office crowd.

Kozee Hong Kong style fried meehoon with snow
pea, home made fish cake and dried shrimps.

I know it looks bland but the gravy is rich in flavor.

Signature Dish: Sweet and Sour Chicken

Tender strips of chicken. Goes really well with steam rice.


Rating:
Service ****
Taste ****
Presentation ****
Price *****

No29, Jalan Wan Kadir 2, TTDI, 60000 KL.

Genuine Penang food @ SS2

This is a family run restaurant proffering delicious, genuine Penang dishes and good selection of mixed rice ( zhap funn).

Highly recommended: Penang Prawn mee, Penang hokkien char and Penang char kueh tiew.

Don't be fooled by the simple presentation of the food you see below. They actually taste good!

Loh Mee Sua

Penang style yee mee

The restaurant is situated in SS2/103. Forgotten to take down the shop no :)

Rating:
Service ***
Taste ****
Presentation **
Price *****

Good food in a family friendly environment

We celebrated Raj's birthday at Ribs @ Oasis. All of us enjoyed the food especially the dessert! Truly is a wonderful restaurant that the entire family can enjoy. With friendly and efficient service, everyone will leave with their stomachs full and a smile on their face.

Ribstropic- blend mango & blood orange shaken with sprite.

Roasted baby back pork rib - oriental style

Well seasoned, but the meat was a bit dry


Pan fried butter fish - with capers topped with burnt
butter lemon sauce on a bed of roasted potatoes

Capers gives great flavor to the fish. Butter fish fillets are fresh


Bacon wrapped burger homemade with 180gm of ground beef
and come with fresh tomato, lettuce, cheese and french fries

Bacon is brown, crisp on the ends and chewy in the center


Carbonara - rich creamy sauce with bacon & mushrooms

The sauce is creamy and yet not too rich


Peach & banana crumble with haagen-daz vanila ice-cream

I love the contrast of melting vanilla ice cream.
Fruit is soft against the crunchy crumble

Rating:
Service *****
Taste ****
Presentation *****
Price ****

Ribs @ Oasis
Lot 1-1, BU4, Oasis Complex
No.1, Jln Changkat Bandar Utama
47800 Bandar Utama
03-77298921